Traditionally, I like to have a recipe in December, to leave the year on something tasty. Once upon a time, I had a mind to put some historical cooking videos on YouTube. I started with a base recipe taken from Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. It was beautiful, I was …
My February posts A few years ago, I wrote a Valentine’s Day blog about Napoleon and Josephine, and it kind of morphed into the dynamics of relationships between famous people. In 2023, we had fun with American literature heavyweights, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. So, today, we’re looking at two heavy hitters of English fantasy: …
In December of 2010, I went on a fieldtrip to Oxford, to the Ashmolean Museum, to pick an item from the collection on which to write an object biography. Essentially, I’d pick a historical artefact and write up how it got from its creator to the museum, and all the steps in between. Ultimately, I …
So, every so often (usually when Facebook won’t let me share posts to my author page), I poll the Misfits about the kind of posts they’d like to see me write about. One of the most popular ideas was mythology related to gods and spirits ruling over the domain of creativity. So, who better to …
Back in 2021, I made a video on YouTube about Napoleon’s letters to Josephine, and it is far and away the most viewed video on my channel. It was so popular, it made me want to make a tradition of reading overblown and cringey letters from famous people. You can watch the original video here: …
Love. L’amour. Is there anything sweeter than a deep intimacy between two people and the legacy it leaves behind? Unless, of course, it goes south and one of them mysteriously disappears and the other one has blood on their hands. Sometimes that legacy evolves into one of my favourite genres of music, the precursor to …
Do you ever look so forward to savouring something that you almost dread consuming it? Like you worry that your excitement is bigger than the satisfaction of having the thing? Or you’re saving it for just the right moment, but the Right Moment never comes? That was what happened with this book. It’s difficult and …
The language of flowers refers to a system of subtle communication by using plants as symbolic images. It combines horticulture, mythology, and and psychology to form a sort of lexicon that can convey messages.
I love Hans Christian Andersen. He’s a storyteller I’ve had my eye on since, oh, about 1989, if you know what I’m saying.
That which we call a rose would smell as sweet. But would it? Would Harry Potter be such an everyman if his name were Albus Dumbledore? Would Aragon, son of Arathorn, be so inspiring if he were named Bilbo Baggins? Is it just familiarity that makes these names feel perfect, or is there actually something …
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